Early Development: Residential

Early Development Residential Architecture, Prior to 1830*

	Joel Lane House (Wakefield)		Lane-Bennett House
	Mordecai House		Crabtree Jones House
	Haywood Hall		White-Holman House
	Trinity House		Andrew Johnson House
	Elmwood		Spring Hill/Theophilus Hunter House

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728 West Hargett Street
ca. 1760

Wakefield, the gambrel-roofed home of Colonel Joel Lane, has been restored to its 1790-1795 appearance by the Wake County Committee of the Colonial Dames. Colonel Lane became known as the "Father of Raleigh" after he sold a thousand acres of land to the state in 1792 to establish a permanent state capital here. Tours available.

*National Register of Historic Places

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7408 Ebenezer Church Road
1775

Joseph Lane, brother of Joel Lane, who owned the land upon which Raleigh was founded, built this small Georgian style farmhouse in western Wake County. The house, moved to its present location in 1980 to prevent demolition, has been rehabilitated. Joseph Gales, founder of the newspaper Raleigh Register, once owned the house. Private residence.

*National Register of Historic Places

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1 Mimosa Street (Mordecai Historic Park)
ca. 1785 and 1826

Joel Lane built the original dwelling, a frame house in the hall and parlor plan, for his son Henry. The house is named for Moses Mordecai, who married into the Lane family and provided in his will for the 1826 Greek Revival addition, designed by William Nichols. The center of a thriving plantation, Mordecai House remained in the Lane-Mordecai family until 1967 when the city of Raleigh purchased the property to establish an historic park. The house and dependencies provide a glimpse into the life of a single family spanning five generations. Open to the public.

*National Register of Historic Places

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3017 Wake Forest Road
ca. 1795

This Federal-style plantation house features molded weatherboards, modillion cornice, Flemish bond chimneys and six-panel doors. Nathaniel Jones, an early Wake County settler, built the dwelling. Today, the wooded site is an eighteenth-century island surrounded by late twentieth- and early twenty-first century commercial and industrial development. Private residence.

*National Register of Historic Places

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211 New Bern Avenue
ca. 1799

Built for John Haywood, state treasurer for forty years, Haywood Hall remained home to one of North Carolina's most distinguished families until 1977. The family bequeathed the late Georgian/early Federal-style house to the State Society of the Colonial Dames who maintain it and its four dependencies as a house museum. The garden has been restored by Home and Neighborhood Development Sponsors, also known as HANDS. The house and garden are available for tours and receptions.

*National Register of Historic Places

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206 New Bern Avenue
ca. 1799

Also known as Whitehall, the original late Georgian/early Federal-style dwelling was built for secretary of state William White. The house has undergone major changes including the addition of a Victorian wing and an about face when the City of Raleigh turned it around from its original Morgan St. frontage to face New Bern Ave. Private residence.

*National Register of Historic Places

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3700 Trenton Road

ca. 1800

The Trinity House is Wake County's oldest surviving brick house. Despite an expansion in the nineteenth century and extensive remodeling in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the house retains original details like the Flemish-bond brick walls (visible inside but covered by stucco at the exterior), a steeply pitched side-gable roof, and interior chimneys. As late as the 1960s, the house still had Federal-era mantels and six-panel doors. Private residence.

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1 Mimosa Street (Mordecai Historic Park)

Before to 1808 Andrew Johnson, seventeenth president of the United States, was born in this tiny gambrel-roofed building with a loft. The building was the detached kitchen for Peter Casso's Inn as well as home to the four members of the Johnson family. Originally sited near E. Morgan and Fayetteville Streets, the building was relocated three times before its 1975 move to Mordecai Historic Park. Open to public.

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16 North Boylan Avenue

ca. 1813

Elmwood, a two-and-one-half story frame townhouse, has been home to many distinguished North Carolinians including two Supreme Court chief justices, an associate justice, an ambassador and a historian. The house displays many Federal-period characteristics including molded weatherboards and gabled dormers with fanlights; there are also several post-Federal-period additions dating from the mid-nineteenth century. It now serves as offices.

*National Register of Historic Places

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705 Barbar Drive (Dorothea Dix Hospital Campus)

ca. 1815

Spring Hill was the home of prominent late eighteenth/early nineteenth century plantation owner and lawyer, Theophilus Hunter Jr. The earliest marked grave in Wake County, that of pioneer settler Theophilus Hunter Sr., is in the yard. The dwelling now houses offices for a university academic program.

*National Register of Historic Places